Semitic Etymological Database
Lower-level reconstructions
Words
Cf. Ugr. ḥmdrt ‘parched field’. The origin of Akk.-Ugr. *ḥmdr ‘to be parched, shrivelled’ is uncertain.
Akk. ḫ in ḫamadīru vs. Ugr. ḥ is noteworthy. Huehnergard 2003:105: “The Ugaritic may be a loan from Akkadian”
yawmun muḥtamidun = šadīdu l-ḥarri (‘muḥtamid’, said of day – very hot)